Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa > Class Asteroidea > Subclass Ambuloasteroidea > Infraclass Neoasteroidea > Superorder Valvatacea > Order Valvatida

Poraniidae Perrier, 1894

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chondraster Verrill, 1895
Culcitopsis Verrill, 1914
Glabraster A.H. Clark, 1916
Marginaster Perrier, 1881
Porania Gray, 1840
Poraniomorpha Danielssen & Koren, 1881
Tylaster Danielssen & Koren, 1881

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Swedish: kuddsjöstjärnor

Literature

original description	Perrier, E. (1893). Echinodermes. Traité de Zoologie. 781-864.
original description	Perrier, E. (1894). Stellérides. Expéditions Scientifique Travailleur et du Talisman. 3:1-431, 26 pls.
basis of record	Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351.
additional source	Mah, C.L. & Foltz, D.W. (2014). New Taxa and Taxonomic Revisions to the Poraniidae (Valvatacea; Asteroidea) with Comments on Feeding Biology. Zootaxa 3795(3): 327-372.
additional source	Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp.
identification resource	Clark, A. M. (1984). Notes on Atlantic and other Asteroidea. 4. Families Poraniidae and Asteropseidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Zoology 47: 19–51.

Genbank

Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Poraniidae Perrier, 1894. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123138